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Cerisy is a small village in the district known as the Santerre, to the east of Amiens and 12 km from Albert.

Cerisy is located along the valley of the Somme. A small part of the village is built on the hillside. The houses were originally grouped around the church and the town hall but recent constructions of individual houses spread out along the main axes of the town

The soil of the commune is predominantly clay-siliceous. To the south, there are some very calcareous soils covered with a thin layer of topsoil. Towards Bayonvillers and Lamotte-Warfusée are flint beds. To the north and north-east, the soil is marshy and peaty to the Somme. The plateaux to the south are separated by dry valleys, the most important being the valley of Boisreau.

Economic activities are mainly related to agriculture. On the municipal territory are located an industrial company and a carpentry. There is no more trade in the commune except the passage of street traders (bakery, butchery ...).

The services are represented by a nursing office and the communal school with canteen.

The commune suffers from a relative enclavement, it is connected to the other villages only by secondary roads. A cycle path is being built along the Somme canal and a path for fishermen.[1]

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses carried out in the commune since 1793. From the mid-2000s, the legal populations of the communes are published annually. The census is now based on an annual collection of information, covering successively all the communal territories over a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10 000 inhabitants, a census survey covering the entire population is carried out every five years, with the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation.[2] For the municipality, the first exhaustive census under the new system was carried out in 2004.[3]

Historical population of Cerisy

Year

1793

1800

1806

1821

1831

1836

1841

1846

1851

1856

1901

1936

1946

1954

1962

1968

1975

1982

1990

1999

2006

Population

576

544

606

622

694

722

750

748

759

742

567

462

441

454

332

358

337

337

342

390

416

From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Cerisy-Gailly became Cerisy is a commune whose origin is very ancient.[4] The village existed before the founding of the abbey of Corbie in the 7th century. It was one of the first donations made to the abbey which had installed a priory and a provost to control the exploitation of the land.

On August 4, 1636, the Spaniards crossed the Somme at Cerisy, unable to do so at Bray. In 1693, a school was founded in Cerisy. At the Revolution, the priory was suppressed and from 1870-1871 the population had to undergo the requisitions of the Prussian army. From 1914 to 1918, the village saw a large number of troops gathering on the way to the marching up down the front line.

On January 1, 1966, the town then known as Gailly became a hamlet of Sailly-Laurette of which it is separated only by the Somme and Gailly took the name of Cerisy.

By a prefectoral order of 27 December 2016, the commune was detached on 1 January 2017 from the arrondissement of Péronne to integrate the arrondissement of Amiens.[5]

After the Great War, there was found in the ruins of the church, the ruins of a baptismal vessel made of sculpted stone of the 13th century which was restored. The baptismal font consists of a basin carved in a capital that rests on a short column.